Connectionists: A full-day tutorial on the CLARION cognitive architecture

[Professor Ron Sun]

A full-day tutorial on the CLARION cognitive architecture will take  
place on July 23rd, 2008,  at the 30th Annual Conference of the  
Cognitive Science Society in Washington DC (http://ccc.utexas.edu/ 
cogsci08/index.html). For participants attending the CogSci2008  
conference, the tutorial is free.

This full-day tutorial introduces participants to CLARION, a dual- 
process/dual-representation cognitive architecture that focuses on  
the distinction between explicit and implicit cognitive processes, as  
well as their synergistic interactions. CLARION is also integrative,  
involving cognition (reasoning, learning, skill acquisition, etc.),  
motivation, metacognition, and so on.

This presentation will provide a detailed, introductory description,  
along with many simulations, advanced topics, and formal results.  
Although some prior exposure to cognitive architectures and  
artificial neural networks can be helpful, prior understanding of  
these areas is not required, as the full-day format allows a detailed  
presentation of basic, as well as advanced, topics related to  
cognitive modeling using the CLARION cognitive architecture. This  
tutorial will enable participants to apply the basic concepts,  
theories, and computational models of CLARION to their own work.

For registration, go to: http://ccc.utexas.edu/cogsci08/index.html

For more information, please contact Sebastien Helie (helies at rpi.edu)


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Professor Ron Sun
Cognitive Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A
Troy, NY 12180, USA

phone: 518-276-3409
fax:   518-276-3017
email: rsun at rpi.edu
web:   http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun
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